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BBN has covered 4 stories about Neanderthal, mostly in Tech and U.S., as reported by New York Post, NPR, Live Science, The Guardian and others. Newest first.

  1. U.S.

    Omar probe, voting charges, Viking church, Neanderthal find

    Agents also searched for DNA evidence in her trash, the New York Times reportedly says, and investigators have issued more than a dozen subpoenas; paperwork is the whole case.

    Reported by New York Post, NPR · with a Short
  2. Weird News

    Neanderthal shoulder hole may be a wooden spear kill shot

    Archaeologists point to a hole in an ancient shoulder blade as possible evidence of a wooden spear strike; in other news, Spider-Man fans narrowly missed a record.

    Reported by Live Science · with a Short
  3. Tech

    Neanderthal remains may be earliest human ancestor find killed by a…

    Archaeologists spotted the distinctive injury after excavating the adult and other Neanderthals from an Iraqi Kurdistan cave, and the hole could be the oldest spear-kill evidence yet.

    Reported by The Guardian, ScienceAlert
  4. Tech

    Spear wound may be 75,000 years old, per new reports

    The remains, excavated in an Iraqi Kurdistan cave, include a shoulder blade with a smooth round hole; researchers say it may be the earliest spear-kill evidence.

    Reported by ScienceAlert, The Guardian

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